Science Fair Awards

2011 Awards

• Tiana Leina'ala Naholowaa, James Campbell High School. Coral Bleaching: How Elevated Seawater Temperatures Affect Hawai'i's Corals. Teacher Award: Caroline Young.
  
• Taylor Wainani Traub, Morgan Taylor, Gabrielle M. Desimone, West Hawai'i Explorations Academy. Reef Teach.
  

• Cody Lambrecht, Hualalai Academy. Nipped, Hammered or Soaked, Which Stimulant Works Best?
  
• Elizabeth Jim, Hawai'i Preparatory Academy. Is There a Relationship Between the Territory Size of Chaetodon multicintus and the Abundance and Diversity of Coral?
  

2010 Awards

• Danielle Snodgrass, Mililani High School
  Effects of Tourism on Habits and Number of Spinner Dolphins
           Teacher Award: Mary Jean Fischer, Mililani High School
• Maile-Jean K. Lopez and May Rose B Lazarte, Waipahu High School
  Host Tree Transplantation and Captive Propagation of Native Oahu Tree Snails

• Cody Kazue Hamane, Hilo Intermediate School
  Native vs. Invasive: Survival of the Fittest
• Robert T. Heckman, Kailua Intermediate
  Coral age and Tumors

2009 Awards

• Terah T. Summer and Serena S.N. Perry, Baldwin High School
  Three Fish, Two Fish, One Fish, No Fish!
          Teacher Award: Barbara Huntley, Baldwin High School, 2009 HCC registration waiver
• Amelia L.K. Harvey, Kamehameha School, Kapalama
  Molecular Taxonomy of Indigenous Hawaiian Ferns

• Zoe Sims, Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy
  Coqui Frog Eradication: At What Cost?
• Mathew R. Beattie-Callahan, Hawaii Technology Academy
  Ocean Water Acidification: How to Protect Our Coral

2008 Awards

• Chelsea Takahashi, Waiakea High School
  Conservation of the Engangered Nanu (Gardenia brighamii) in Germplasm Storage
          Teacher Award: Jamie Nekoba and Michael Tanabe, Waiakea High School, 2008 HCC registration waiver
• Mali‘o Kodis*, Waiakea High School
  An Analysis of the Prokaryotic Community Associated with the Mucus of Montipora patula
  *also winner of 2008 Best Student Poster at the Hawai'i Conservation Conference

• Gina M. McGuire, Kamehameha School, Hawaii Campus
  Environmental Water: Its Effect on Maile Growth
• Jessie J. Bersson, Lanikai Public Charter School

2007 Awards

• Jacob L. Garner, Mililani High School
  Species Distrubtion Relative to Soil Characterization in Kalaeloa
          Teacher Award: Sandra Webb and Bruce Koebele, Mililani High School, Registration fee waiver for 2007 Hawai‘i Conservation Conference
• Riles Alexander Martinez and Guy Parker Miller, Kauai High School
  When I’m Gone, When Will the Soil Return to Normal?

• Emma Tunison, Volcano School of Arts and Sciences
  Makin’ Moa Koa
• Melissa Lee, St. Andrew’s Priory
  Invasive Species in Hawai‘i: The Erythrina Gall Wasp

2006 Awards

• Jessie Ann Ka‘iulani Pa‘ahana, Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama Campus, Grade 12
  ‘Ōhelo Phase II: Isolation of BioActive Component
          Teacher Award: Lawrence J. Morden, Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama Campus, Registration fee waiver for 2006 Hawai‘i Conservation Conference
• Shanoa M. Miller, King Kekaulike High School, Grade 11
  A Search for the Red Imported Fire Ant and the Little Fire Ant, a Second Year Study

• Tiffany M. Kondo, Mid-Pacific Institute, Grade 8
  Slug Control Using Common Household Products
• Mali‘o W. Kodis, Waiakea Intermediate, Grade 8
  Effects of Emissions from Halemaumau on Vegetation Upwind and Downwind of the Crater